Friday 8 October 2010

It was Friday, under the sign of Libra (see planets position on October 8, 2010). The US president was Barack Obama (Democratic).
In that special week of October people in US were listening to Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars.
Aakrosh, directed by Priyadarshan, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2010
while Sh*T My Dad Says by Justin Halpern was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching Gigantic.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Blade Kitten or Cover Orange.
But much more happened that day: find out below..

Famous Birthdays:

Famous Deaths:

Facts:

Four miners were killed and another was seriously injured after a colliery collapsed in Xinjiang. A pit owned by Xinjiang Shenhua Tiandian Mining in Hutubi county in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture caved in. (Global Times)

At least 16 people, including the governor of Kunduz province, Mohammad Omar, are killed in a bombing. (Voice of America)

German officials say that Islamic militants whose disclosures have triggered a Europe-wide terror alert, have links to the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001. (AP via Google News)

A Taiwanese ship initially believed to have been hijacked off the coast of Madagascar is later found safe. (Xinhua)

Israeli–Palestinian conflict:

Two Hamas militants are killed, several others are injured and more are detained in an overnight Israeli military raid on Hebron in Israel. A Hamas-affiliated group, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, threatens revenge attacks. (''The Jerusalem Post'')

Two Palestinian boys stoning an Israeli car in Shiloach are hurt when the driver of the car, the director of the Ir David Foundation, crashes into them while trying to escape the crowd of youths stoning his car. One of them is hospitalized. (Al Jazeera)

Google celebrates the 70th birthday of John Lennon with an animated Google doodle. (''The Daily Telegraph'')

German film ''The White Ribbon'' wins the BBC Four World Cinema Award. (BBC)

United States gospel music singer Albertina Walker, known as the ampquotQueen of Gospelampquot dies in Chicago. (''Chicago Tribune'' via HeraldNet)

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) concluded its 37th session of its assembly on Friday at its headquarters in Montreal, making progresses on aviation emissions. (China Daily)

The United States economy shed 95,000 more jobs than expected in September. (Al Jazeera)

The United Arab Emirates announces that it will not implement a proposed ban on all BlackBerry services due to go into effect from next year. (CNN)

Premier Wen Jiabao of the People's Republic of China denies reports that China is using its control over minerals crucial to high technology (called ampquotrare earthampquot) as a bargaining chip, especially in a dispute with Japan over Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing-boat captain (AP)

Books

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair,"

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE -- nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best PictureTo five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn.

#1 National BestsellerWinner of the John Gardner Fiction AwardA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistIn his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage.

Cover Orange

Platform: iOS

Financial News

Stock Markets and Exchange Rates

News articles

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Addressing Your Cat&#8217;s ... Ahem ... Solid Waste

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